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'#}' in)/ :i.(iw/V! | personal slants on doings interest to power men-some significant, MMA illft AtiJ New tenant of'this page takes over from Defense Digest just after the Korea trace signing. That's mostly coincidence, though. Reason for the'change goes deeper. Truce or no truce, we're still up to our necks In defense business. But we've worked our wsy out of the "buildup" phase and we've got an administration that doesn't believe in unaeeded controls. So, with relatively little to report about bottlenecks, shortages, and regulations to relieve them. Defense Digest seems to hove earned honorable retirement. Of course, when something "hot" comes along we'll run (t here, new title for the page notwithstanding. But our nlm from now on Is to tell you shout things that strike us as important, interesting, unusuol, or Just plain amusing. .UltrafiODiC inspection for h*p b-t piping quickly became accepted practice (Power, Oct 1950, pp 102-104). Now It's tackling the new job of locotlng and measoring conoded areas Inside pipelines. It spots trouble areas fine, botbefore Jt can be used as a routine method, pipelines have to find a way to scan pipe surfaces quickly end completely and to "digest" resulting mass of oscillographs. Bourbon find electricity make a fascinating combination, ao you can bet we took more than a casual look at a recent news roleose Using up these two forms of energy. Seems that, since Repeal, demand for Old Stagg caused recordbreaking productioa of 2,000,OOObattciaof bourbon at the Albert B Blanton distillery. So the2,000,000th keg, suitably decorated and Inscribed, was tucked away ceremoniously in s little "one-barrel" stone wsrehouse built for the occasion. Not content to trust to our laterest In whiskey for itself alone, a hardwork ing ad-ogency man coyly captioned the picture "Power Keg" and went on to tell us that more than >900,000 worth of electricity went Into making those 2,000,000 banels. He's probably 8U11 lame from reaching for that tieiip! Bagasse burning may well become less common for disposing of pressed sugar cone. It ' looko as If bagosse may be entering the cycle followed by other waste fuels sawdust for example. In the old days, sawdust was Incinerated. Then, os fuel costs rose, it become worthwhile to burn It as a steam fuel and to develop equlpment to dothe job efficiently. Now, la many areas fuel use Is declining os sawdust finds a place as a raw material for marketable products. Whet started this philosophising was a recent news Item about a $2.6 million paper mill in the heart of Louisiana's sugar-cane country. It will be first In U. S. to make newsprint and other papers from bagosao. Test press runs on all-bagasse newsprint have been mode by several publishers and it looks good. Want to write better? Ability to write clearly end concisely can make e big difference to your career. And it isn't too hud to acquire, A nutnbet of recent books put _QCf088 the fundamentals in easy-to-take fashion. Try these: "Technique of Clear Writing" by Robert Gunning (McGraw-Hill), "Art of Readable Writing" by Rudolph Flesch (Harpet & Brothers), "Clear Wilting for Easy Reading" by Norman Shldle (McGraw-Hill). Gunning and Flesch aot only tell how to improve your writing, they show you how to measure the readability of whet you've written. Shidle gives considerable attention to the common forms of business writing - letters, memos, reports, etc. 144 umd to the elements--but they withstand freezing, corrosion and dirt. I HEAVY-DUTY FANS IN OUTDOOR ISTALLATION AT KAISER ALUMINUM Twill deliver 2,875,000 cfm dech&aicaldraft equipment at Kaiser Kminum&ChemicalCorporation's gSjUmettc, La., plant bucks tough EwTiiag conditions. Installed out|wrt, it must combat corrosion, dirt jEM temperature extremes. Thirty nVestinghouse-Siurtev&nt Fans were tdioseatohandlesU mechanical draft. {Rugged and dependable, 15 Forced pDraft and 15 Induced Draft hesvyfJuly WesUnghouse Fans will do the jjob jD a0y weather. Their heavy, ? Vetoed steel construction has been : built to "lake it", and scated-ln bear-'ings resist atmospheric conditions. The heavy-duty induc-e-d* d-ir--aAft fans have forwardly curved blades. The heavy-duty forced draft fans have backwardly inclined blades with steep pressure characteristic. You'll find a Westinghouse Fan to meet your requirements. Expert en gineering and years of experience in power generation combine to give you complete satisfaction in mechan ical draft. For full information, call your local Wcstinghouse-Slurtcvant office, or write: Westinghouse Elec tric Corporation, Sturtevant Divi sion, Hyde Park, Boston 36, Mass. At full capacity, Kaiser Aluminum's Chalmctte plant wilt produce 400,000,000 pounds of aluminum s year. 373,000 kw ofelectricity will be steamgenerated with oil and natural gas firing, with Westinghouse Fans used for all mechanical draft. WESTINGHOUSE vou can B. SURE...... .A Westinghouse. SCMEMBOt l?39